Job 29:14-16

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁴I put on ^[a]righteousness, and it clothed me or clothed itself with me; my justice was like a robe and a turban or a diadem or a crown!

¹⁵I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

¹⁶I was a father to the poor and needy; the cause of him I did not know I searched out.

Job 29:14 Blameless and upright as Job had been—and God had so pronounced him—his misunderstood afflictions had caused him to get dangerously off-center. Instead of keeping his mind stayed on God and justifying Him, he is giving his whole thought to justifying himself. Instead of humility there is only self-righteousness. In this chapter he uses pronouns referring to himself fifty times. But when he was able to see himself as God saw him, he loathed himself and repented “in dust and ashes” (Job 42:6).